Later this week, a supposedly unforgettable, magical, vast, breathtaking and captivating cultural event is coming to Liverpool. It’s called La Machine and it’s a large-scale art project created by French artist François Delarozière.
I use the word “supposedly” because nobody can truly know whether it will live up to the various adjectives used above (which, like [...]

Coldplay have started dressing like extras from Les Miserables. I saw them on Jonathan Ross last night; they were wearing vaguely military garb and seemed to have bits of flag tied around their arms. At least one of them was wearing a stupid hat.
I suppose it ties in with the artwork for their new album, [...]

On the day Tower Hamlets council decided to paint over some graffiti by Banksy, here (after the jump) is some less artistic but possibly more amusing vandalism of advertising hoardings. Sky’s ads seem to be a particular magnet for sarcasm…
The second one is in Manchester. I recognise the hoarding underneath the advert. No, really.

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Jamie Hewlett, of Gorillaz and Tank Girl fame, has created the art and costume design for a new production of a Chinese “circus opera” to be staged as part of the Manchester International Festival, which starts next week. It’s called Monkey: Journey to the West and features music by Damon Albarn.
Dazed & Confused has an [...]

Would you look at that?
A massive 4ft designer toy by in demand artist KAWS. Not sure where I’d put this - perhaps it could stay in the window to scare away burglars.
It retails at around £1,250. Not that unreasonable for an artwork on this sort of scale. Consider, for example, that Damien Hirst is flogging [...]